Why I Will Never Again Trust Anything Garrison Keillor Says, by Kevin R. Kosar, August 30, 2009 I cannot recall where I found this book, but I snatched it up because I had heard that Blount was a funny writer. The dust jacket includes effusive praise. Garrison Keillor exclaims, “Roy Bount’s stuff makes me...
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A Retro-Review of Edward C. Banfield’s Government Project: An Account of Big Government in Action, September 2009, by Kevin R. Kosar, August 28,2009 Public Administration Review has just published my retro-review of this terrific book: A Nearly Forgotten Classic in Public Administration: Edward C. Banfield’s Government Project, Public Administration Review, September/October, 2009. As the...
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According to the New York Times: Congress … will take up the Child Nutrition Act as soon as October…. The act, which is reauthorized every five years, provides $12 billion to pay for lunch and breakfast for 31 million schoolchildren. Additionally, The Department of Agriculture is expected to upgrade school food nutrition standards this...
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Christopher DeMuth, former head of the American Enterprise Institute, and now its D. C. Searle Senior Fellow, gave a lecture on public policy this past June. He reviewed the neoconservative and Chicago free market criticisms of government action, and focuses much of his lecture on regulatory policy. DeMuth forcefully argued that regulation frequently has...
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Sam Dillon of the New York Times writes Holding out billions of dollars as a potential windfall, the Obama administration is persuading state after state to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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